How The West Was 1010001
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How The West Was 1010001 | |||||
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No. | 143 | ||||
Production number | 8ACV03 | ||||
Written by | Nona di Spargement | ||||
Directed by | James Kim | ||||
Title caption | Based On An Actual UFO Sighting | ||||
First air date | 7 August, 2023 [1] | ||||
Broadcast number | S11E03 | ||||
Title reference | The 1962 film How the West Was Won, and the letter 'Q' in ASCII binary form. | ||||
Opening cartoon | A Is for Atom by John Sutherland Productions (1953) | ||||
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"How The West Was 1010001" is the one hundred and forty-third episode of Futurama, the third of the eighth production season and the third of the eleventh broadcast season. It aired on 7 August, 2023 [1], on Hulu.
Plot
Act I
Act II
Act III
Production
The writer of record for this episode is Nona di Spargement.[2]. During the Futurama Fan Panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, 2022, Patric Verrone revealed that the script was actually written by Ken Keeler.[3]
Reception
Additional information
Trivia
Allusions
- 1010001 in binary is 51 in hexadecimal, 81 in decimal, and maps to the letter 'Q' in the ASCII standard.
- During the Futurama Fan Panel at the San Diego Comic-Con, 2022, Patric Verrone revealed that the number 81 itself also has a meaning.[4] This would turn-out to be the atomic number of thallium, the metal that the crew seeks out in this episode.
- The title of this episode is also a reference to the 1962 film How the West Was Won.
- When the Professor was showing the periodic table to the crew, the element indium can be seen to be renamed to "Native Americium", alluding to the Native American name controversy.
- Fry was reading a Borax Kid action book titled The Borax Kid vs the Outlaws of Thermodynamics. A demonic figure named "Maxwell's demon" was seen stealing gold molecules from a bank vault and shooting lead atoms out of a revolver, alluding to the famous thought experiment of the same name, where a molecule-manipulating demon could hypothetically violate the second law of thermodynamics.
- The crypto town "Doge City" is named after a cryptocurrency. The following commerces can be seen in town:
- BTC ETC
- WALL•ET
- Doc Fiesta - Only Health Care West of the Pecos
- Lazy ₿ Bitcoin Holding Co. - Assayer - We Buy Thallium
- Mild Bill's False-Alarm Chili
- Sweatwater Saloon
Continuity
- Bender played his guitar, Salmonella, during the folk song.
- Bender's ass plate is seen to have two circular holes and a rectangular hole with a hatch. But in the episode "Assie Come Home" where the plate was used for a lighthouse mirror, it only has two circular holes.
Quotes
Alien Language Sightings
Goofs
Characters
References